Why does GLP refer to an ACTFL Distinguished level, which has not yet been defined by ACTFL for all skills?
ACTFL and ETS coined the term Distinguished to designate skill levels above the ACTFL Superior level. The Superior level corresponds to a 3 on the 5-point government scale out on which the ACTFL levels were based. The broad Distinguished category refers to everything from levels 3+ to 5. Since there was no official ACTFL Distinguished level for all of its 4 skills as of Spring 2008, these statements were provisionally developed for GLP under the “Distinguished” rubric based on Interagency Language Roundtable descriptions, primarily the descriptions for levels 4 and 4+. The Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) levels of 0 to 5 are still used by the U.S. Government, and their web site provides up-to-date and detailed information on the levels 3+ to 5. The ILR site was the basis for “can do” statements developed for the Global Language Portfolio “provisional” checklists. One of the reasons they are provisional is that in the next phase of GLP, government agencies will ideally provide inp
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